Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel

Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel
ISBN-10
0374224242
ISBN-13
9780374224240
Series
Odds Against Tomorrow
Category
Fiction
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2013-04-02
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Nathaniel Rich

Description

While working for a financial consulting firm that offers insurance against catastrophic events, a young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.

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